ComEd Sees Another 300,000 New Residential Shoppers; Total Exceeds 1 Million

The Commonwealth Edison territory has exceeded 1 million residential electric customers billed on competitive supply, according to a snapshot of statistics posted by the Illinois Commerce Commission.

The Plug-In Illinois site has been updated with the number of residential accounts migrated to (and billed on) competitive supply as of September 30. More detailed statistics (such as % of customers switched and load data), and statistics for non-residential classes, have not yet been posted as of press time.

As previously noted, the ICC migration statistics discussed below show customers who have switched to a competitive supplier and have completed at least one billing cycle on competitive supply. Accordingly, the data lags completed enrollments.

According to the Plug-In Illinois report, just over 1 million ComEd residential customers had completed at least one billing cycle on competitive supply as of September 30, 2012, compared with 713,000 as of August 31; 527,000 as of July 31; 437,000 as of June 30, 2012; and 406,000 as of May 31, 2012.

The aggregation-driven growth of 300,000 residential shoppers at ComEd during September is another monthly record, following the August growth of 186,000 and July growth of 90,000.

Growth in residential shopping at Ameren was measured. Across all three rate zones, the aggregate growth in Ameren residential shopping from August 31 to September 30 was 9,400 accounts, versus the growth of 25,000 residential shoppers from July 31 to August 31.

Residential customers at Ameren who have switched to a competitive supplier and have completed at least one billing cycle on competitive supply as of September 30, 2012 were as follows:

Rate Zone I, AmerenCIPS: 61,800

Rate Zone II, AmerenCILCO: 121,102

Rate Zone III, AmerenIP: 126,349

The net growth in residential accounts billed on competitive supply at Ameren during September, compared to the August totals, was as follows:

Rate Zone I, AmerenCIPS: +2,395

Rate Zone II, AmerenCILCO: +4,220

Rate Zone III, AmerenIP: +2,765